Miami New Times Best of 2017

Client: Miami New Times

Art Director: Kristin Bjornsen

Due to climate change, Miami is already experiencing rising tides and coastal flooding. The Best of 2017 issue takes a playful look at a near future where the city is in a constant state of being underwater.

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LA Weekly Best of 2016

Client: LA Weekly

Art Director: Darrick Rainey

I was honored to illustrate the momentous Best of 2016 issue, commemorating the election that we all just wanted to end.

4/20 Flamingo

Cover story about the history of marijuana in Florida, timed to come out on 4/20, naturally.

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Liberty Selfie

Client: The Village Voice

Art Director: Tom Carlson

For the annual Best of NYC issue, I was asked to have Lady Liberty go on a selfie tour of New York, with an illustration to represent each "Best of" category.

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The Big Lebowski

Client: LA Weekly

Art Director: Darrick Rainey

The Dude celebrated his 15th anniversary, and there was no more appropriate publication to celebrate the occasion than LA Weekly. Raise your White Russians, people.

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Blood Wedding

Client: Westmont College

Art Director: Mitchell Thomas

A poster for Westmont College Theatre's production of Blood Wedding.

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21st Century Viking

Client: Phoenix New Times

Art Director: Tom Carlson

Cover image about the death of Jubel Dean Perkins, a practitioner of an ancient Viking religion called Asatru.

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Capitol Offense

Client: Riverfront Times

Art Director: Tom Carlson

Cover illustration that ran on four different Village Voice Media papers; scroll down to see the printed versions.

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Middle Eastern Film Festival

Client: City Pages

Art Director: Mike Kooiman

Cover for Minnesota's City Pages, for a Middle Eastern Film Festival coming to town. The article noted that many of the films were distinctly inspired by American movies, particularly James Dean films.

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Netflix vs. Amazon

Client: The Hollywood Reporter

Art Director: Peter Cury

The CEOs of Amazon and Netflix gird themselves for war as both companies create original films that are vying for Oscar attention.

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Hanuman

Client: Seattle Weekly

Art Director: Jane Sherman

A cover for the fall arts issue, which included various Hindu-themed exhibitions and events. The monkey god Hanuman here wields an orange Space Needle as his scepter (it was temporarily orange back then), and Mount Rainier in the place of the usual tropical island in his hand.

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The Dido Project

Client: Westmont College

Art Director: John Blondell

A poster for Westmont College Theatre, the challenge of this piece was to represent two different productions, performed on the same night, of the same basic text of the tragedy Dido and Aeneas. Each production had its own style and cast, and the back-to-back performance combined into an evening of theatre known as The Dido Project.

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Adam West's Batman

A tribute to the late great Adam West. His Batman was indeed the Bright Knight.

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Loving Hut Cult

Client: Phoenix New Times

Art Director: Peter Storch

Illustration about the vegan food chain The Loving Hut, which is accused of being a financial front for a cult. The article claimed that employees are to perform their duties as work hours on behalf of the church.

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Your Money For Nothing

Client: SF Weekly

Art Director: Andrew Nilsen

During a state financial crisis, key California unions managed to negotiate bonuses for tasks that would usually be considered simply part of their day-to-day jobs.

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Bernie Ecclestone

Client: Racer Magazine

Art Director: Rob French

Portrait of Formula-One racing mogul, Bernie Ecclestone.

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Margaritaville

Client: Miami New Times

Art Director: Miche Ratto

The Hollywood Beach area of Miami threatens to be fundamentally transformed (for the worse) due to the opening of a new Jimmy Buffet-owned Margaritaville resort.

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Electra

Client: Westmont Theatre

Art Director: Mitchell Thomas

Poster for Westmont's innovative production of the Greek tragedy Electra.

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Graduate Debt

Client: The Wall Street Journal

Art Director: Mark Tyner

Illustration for the Weekend Investor section, on the topic of how to best assist your debt-laden college graduate.

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Fandom

Client: Scottsdale Times

Art Director: Shanna Hogan

Illustration for a cover story about the world of fanboys, specifically the impassioned fans of Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and comic books.

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All the King's Mess

Client: Seattle Met

Art Director: Chuck Kerr

Ben Thompson ran a successful Kickstarter campaign for playing cards based off of his popular "Badass of the Week" website. But successfully fulfilling the card orders turned into a debacle.

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Monopoly Man

Client: Stocks & Commodities

Art Director: Christine Morrison

For an article about financial markets, which makes specific mention of waiting to make your move until the market "tips its hat to you." A layer of film grain was added to give it an old-time print lithography feel.

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Tina and Amy

Client: Variety

Art Director: Robyn Boehler

Celebrating the final round of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler as hosts of the Golden Globes awards ceremony.

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Michele Bachmann

Client: City Pages

Art Director: Mike Kooiman

Originally painted for my own Halloween-themed mailer back during the 2012 election cycle, Mike Kooiman at City Pages saw it and asked to run it in their Halloween issue.

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Milk Money

Client: City Pages

Art Director: Mike Kooiman

Cover story about controversy within the dairy industry, all in the name of increasing profits. The character and setting is an homage to the iconic Land O Lakes Butter packaging.

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PlayBeckett

Client: Westmont Theatre

Art Director: John Blondell

Poster for a series of short plays by Samuel Beckett.

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10 Things

Client: The Wall Street Journal

Art Director: Mark Tyner

Column on the topic of "10 Things You Don't Know About Your Financial Advisor"...and they're not good.

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Measuring Financial Knowledge

Client: The Wall Street Journal

Art Director: Mark Tyner

For the Weekend Investor section of the Wall Street Journal, on the topic of measuring one's own financial knowledge.

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RNC Elephant

Client: CL Tampa

Art Director: Todd Bates

For a summer 2011 cover, in anticipation of the inevitable impact of the RNC convention that was to be hosted in Tampa the following year.

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Daily Double

Client: The North American Review

Art Director: Shelly Criswell

Illustration for a fiction story for The North American Review, about a man's attempt to come to terms with both his own alcoholism and his father's horse-racing gambling addiction.

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Obama

Portrait of our president as he begins his last year in office.

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Polite Robots

Client: Seattle Met

Art Director: Sara D'Eugenio

Seattle serves as one of the tech hubs of the U.S.A. Apparently, we have nothing to fear from our eventual robot overlords.

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The Florida Experiment

Client: Mother Jones

Art Director: Tim Luddy

An in-depth story about how the disastrous policies of Florida Tea Party governor Rick Scott led to an out-of-control mosquito population and sub-par healthcare, with some patients having to have bones re-broken and re-set in order to properly heal.